Good article. However, IMHO, to fully understand the Democrat's fight against voter ID you have to accept the fact the current Democrat party is actually the new communist party and perpetrating voter fraud and any other way to manipulate an election is fair game as long as it furthers party goals. Their desired ends justifies whatever means they employ to achieve it. Voter ID gets in the way of one of their means.

All they want is to make it impossible to prove votes. It’s just that simple. They will ALWAYS have another box of ballots at 3am under a table. The only way this stops is with armed citizens groups outside the counting places stopping any incoming material after midnight.

I never voted absentee but once in my life, for a Va.
gubernatorial candidate when I was on ACDUTRA as a 4-by10 Naval Reservist, in boot camp, in 1977.
I knew that I was going to be out-of-state, and so made my arrangements beforehand. But that was the only time. I don't think it should be allowed except for a good reason, such as military service, being bed-ridden with an illness at home, or something like that. From what I understand, it is pretty easy for poor people to get voter ID cards free.--I don't even like early voting, but I did it this time (2021)
so as to avoid anyone's going in and voting in my name and pre-empting my vote.